How To Safely Spray Insecticide

If you are a novice to growing fruit trees or bushes, you will need to learn how to protect them from pests. Lots of people do not like the idea of using pesticides, but it is quite problematic to prevent large numbers of insects descending on your crops without using them.

There are various concerns about the use of insecticides ranging from worrying about killing non-harmful pests to poisoning oneself with the insecticide that might remain on the fruit. In the rest of this article, we will try to deal with your worries whether they be altruistic or selfish.

Firstly, we will dispense with your worries about poisoning yourself with the pesticide on your fruit. There is practically no risk of poisoning yourself with modern insecticides, if you follow the instructions on the container.

The insecticide will have a short to medium term life in the open air, so that if you spray at the time you are told to, it will have dissipated by the time you come to consume the fruit. You should always wash fruit just before eating it anyway.

Hand-held spray guns are easy to fill with the correct concentration of pesticide and, normally, water. They are simple to use and you can direct the spray exactly where you would like to. However, this is solely good for use on bushes and dwarf trees. It is not practical to climb trees with one hand holding a sprayer.

Therefore, if you spray mature fruit trees, you will need to use either a hose pipe or a power spray to distribute the pesticide. In the majority of these systems, you attach a bottle of the pesticide to the end of the hose and the water passing over the top of the bottle draws up some insecticide.

This is a fairly good system, but is rather haphazard with regards to the concentration of the insecticide mix that you dispense to your fruit trees. These systems work best with a high water pressure, but in some regions water pressure is not constant and so neither is the concentration of pesticide.

Therefore, you have to pay particular attention to the pesticide as you cannot guarantee the water pressure from mains water pipes. Professional growers use power hoses to get around this problem. The amateur has to use wits in the kind of research into the characteristics of the chemicals, especially if the water pressure varies greatly..

In essence, you will require a pesticide that has a fairly wide tolerance of safety and efficiency. These details will be on the container and so it is imperative to read the directions carefully and follow them to the letter. You need to pay attention to the recommendations for your own safety as well, because the concentration might rise and fall without notice.

The thing to concentrate on whilst spraying is to cover the whole tree but without spraying any area two times, because that increases the likelihood of drip. Dripping not just wastes pesticide but it covers the area under the tree killing bugs that may not be harming your tree - collateral damage. This is very difficult to do and will take practice.

A few last tips. Dripping might also cause the pesticide to be drawn up into the tree by the roots. Be attentive to the direction of the wind, so endeavour to spray on a calm day. Most insecticides are lethal to fish, which is another reason to take the direction of the wind into account.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on several topics, but is currently concerned with the Home Ant Infestation.. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.